Overview
Key Pain points
Inventory management challenges, particularly with plumbing and power systems which are main revenue sources Difficulty organizing and tracking multiple small parts and components Current lack of organization system Inefficient ordering process that takes too much time Split responsibility for ordering among shop workers leading to reliability issues Remote management challenges, as Meg needs to manage the system while being away from the facility Difficulty of integrating software processes into shop-floor workflows Previous unsuccessful attempts with ERP investigation and spreadsheet solutions Solution
Arda is a flexible, low-touch, and powerful inventory and order management system that allows customers to reduce the time they spend on ordering and managing inventory by up to 90% while avoiding the heavy compliance and configuration burdens of ERP software. Our system, combined with an onsite implementation, can help with the problems outlined in our calls.
Arda can eliminate stockouts altogether Kanban lends itself to two-bin systems, which allocate room for replenishment stock and make organization significantly easy Using physical cards removes system ambiguity and is ideal for offsite management Operators place cards in “to-order” bins and consider the part ordered One person is delegated to collect cards from bins and scan them into the system, at which point that person considers them ordered Another person reviews the order queue and actually places orders The receiving workflow tracks parts that come in after orders are placed Cards are minimally disruptive to shop workflows while also extremely powerful Kanban uses and entirely different material flow methodology than an ERP and avoids the cumbersome and onerous nature of rigid software architectures Onsite Implementation Overview
Our goal is to streamline Roam Rig’s inventory and order management processes with Arda, while enabling remote collaboration. We will asses your workflows and production operations, implement digital systems for your workflows, and set up physical order cards to suit.
While many Arda customers implement themselves, when the cost of employee time is considered, having a trained Arda team do the heavy initial lift tends to be more economically efficient. Before arriving onsite, we do a virtual shop tour to better understand your operations. We then use this to configure Arda, integrate with Shopify and Quickbooks or other systems as necessary, and start inputting vendor and supply data. We will show up onsite with our own tools, printer, paper, etc. to make this process as low-touch or high-touch as you would like. We will require a few check-ins with key team members to go over vendors, consumption rates, and after we set up a small-scale version of each process to make sure that what we’ve implemented fits your workflow before we implement that process through your entire shop, but otherwise we aim to be self-sufficient to minimize disruptions to your business activities. Onsite, we won't have time to create and implement physical cards for every item in your entire shop in the 4 days, but we will be able to get a lot of supplies in the system and, more importantly, asses your workflow, tailor Arda to your exact needs, train key team members, and bring your team to a level of proficiency within the system so that you can account for future changes to your business within the system an finish any remaining work to physically set up cards in areas we weren’t able to get to. Utilizing the Arda team’s expertise onsite will greatly accelerate the process of transitioning production over to the Arda system without major disruption to your current business activities. From our experience, it can take 4-6 weeks for an operation of your size to get up and running on an order card system. Our onsite implementation process should enable your team to bypass the onboarding phase altogether and get you to that 4-6 week point within 4 days. Onsite implementation will allow us to train your staff on the system before we leave so that you are ready to hit the ground running after our implementation process. Timeline
Schedule Detail
Roam Rig Onsite Implementation Proposal